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I created some overlays a few months ago, with very good results, including a company logo and a scanned signature that is virtually identical to the original. I ended up using the AFP utilities to create the body of the letter that we send out. AFP utilities are primitive, and it's a bear to work with, but it made it much easier to match the body of the letter to the text we were merging in and to get the text to fit into boxes on the overlay. If you are using this to archive stuff in your outqs, be aware that if you change an overlay that is used by an existing document, and reprint the document, the reprinted version will use the new version of the overlay. Steve Morrison Beacon Insurance Phone 940-720-4672 Fax 940-720-4345 -----Original Message----- From: Mike_Bramley@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Mike_Bramley@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:29 AM To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: overlays I'm looking at *OVL overlays as a possible solution for printing a smarter invoice on release 5.1 (a) is this technique outdated and I should be using something else. What techniques do people use? (b) if not outdated. I've downloaded the printer driver to write out an overlay from MS Word and I can get IBM AFP 600 to work. Transferred to iseries I can create an overlay CRTOVL and use it. If I select a named IBM printer of appropriate type will I get 'better' prints? (c) I tried a random selection of named printers and it doesn't seem to create an overlay that CRTOVL recognises. Get error 02. And the contents of the uploaded overlay 'source' looks different to that for IBM AFP 600. Any ideas? Any help much appreciated. regards Mike -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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